AWFJ Announces 2007 EDA Awards Winners

With sincerest appreciation of all the great work that’s been done in film this year, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists is pleased to announce the winners of the 2007 EDA Awards.

For a full list of 2007 EDA Award nominees, click here.

Congratulations to all!

And the winners are:

EDA Annual Achievement Awards

Best Film:

No Country For Old Men

Best Director:

The Coen Brothers

Best Original Screenplay:

Juno – Diablo Cody

Best Screenplay Adapted:

Away From Her – Sarah Polley

Best Documentary:

No End In Sight – Charles Ferguson

Best Actress:

Julie Christie – Away From Her

Best Actress In Supporting Role:

Amy Ryan – Gone Baby Gone

Best Actor:

Daniel Day Lewis – There Will Be Blood

Best Actor In Supporting Role:

Tom Wilkinson – Michael Clayton

Best Ensemble Cast:

Juno

Best Editing:

The Diving Bell and The Butterfly – Juliette Welfling

Best Foreign Film:

Diving Bell and The Butterfly – Julian Schnabel

EDA Female Focus Awards

Best Woman Director:

Sarah Polley

Best Woman Screenwriter:

Tamara Jenkins – The Savages

Best Breakthrough Performance:

Ellen Page – Juno

Best Newcomer:

Saoirse Ronan – Atonement

Women’s Image Award:

Sarah Polley

Hanging in There Award for Persistence:

Ruby Dee

Actress Defying Age and Agism:

Julie Christie

Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In 2007:

Kathleen Kennedy, Producer, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, Persepolis

Lifetime Achievement Award:

Julie Christie

Award For Humanitarian Activism:

Angelina Jolie

EDA Special Mention Awards

Hall of Shame Award:

Norbit

Actress Most In Need Of A New Agent:

Hilary Swank

Movie You Wanted To Love But Just Couldn’t:

Margot At The Wedding

Unforgettable Moment Award:

Eastern Promises – Viggo Mortensen’s full frontal

Best Depiction Of Nudity or Sexuality:

Eastern Promises – Viggo Mortensen

Best Seduction: (tie)

Atonement – Keira Knightly and James McAvoy

The Namesake – Tabu and Irfan Khan

Most Egregious Age Difference Between Leading Man and Love

Interest:

Beowulf – Robin Wright Penn and Anthony Hopkins

Bravest Performance Award:

Julie Christie – Away From Her

Best Leap from Actress to Director Award:

Sarah Polley

Cultural Crossover Award:

Persepolis

Sequel That Shouldn’t Have Been Made Award:

Shrek 3

Best Of The Fests: (Winner and Special Mentions)

4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days

and

Black Sheep

Forever

Four Sheets To The Wind

Grbivica My Home

Red Road

Secret Sunshine